Plans are coming together for PAA Week, our 2015 virtual annual conference.
PAA Week will take place during the same week we had set aside for our D.C. meeting, that is, July 19-25. Throughout the week we will offer a series of webinars and virtual meetings at various times. You will be able to decide which events you wish to attend. We will record them and make them available for those that can't attend in person.
What: The topics will be ones that PAA has been working on recently including Race, Poverty and Education; messaging; advocacy around ESEA and state and local policy making; and our newest project, testing and student mental health. Most of these sessions will be fully or partially open to the public.
We will also have some internal sharing and planning sessions. Attendance at these will be limited to leaders of PAA chapters and affiliates.
Here's a
tentative schedule for PAA Week. Times are TBA (to be arranged) and this schedule is subject to change.
Sunday 7/19: Kick-off and welcome (internal)
Monday 7/20: Messaging - guest presenter, FairTest's Bob Schaeffer (public/internal)
Tuesday 7/21: Next steps in our Race. Poverty and Education work (public)
Wednesday 7/22: Federal advocacy/PAA's Capitol Hill ToolKit (public)
Thursday 7/23: State and local advocacy; PAA heroes and successes (public/internal)
Friday 7/24: Testing and student mental health, PAA's preliminary findings (public)
Saturday 7/25: Goals and plans (internal)
We are still working on the technical aspects, such as finalizing the meeting platform we'll use and how to sign people up, so watch this space for details.
We hope to make this a fun, useful week that's accessible to more of our members and friends. We also hope that it will mark the beginning of a new and improved cyber-PAA!
